Series: Upgrade Your Life — Post 5 of 6 Earlier this year I wrote about Scott Adams. You can find that post here… If you missed it, Adams was the creator of Dilbert — one of the most widely syndicated comic strips in history — and one of the more interesting thinkers on persuasion, habits,…

Series: Upgrade Your Life — Post 4 of 6 The tagline on this site has been the same for quite a while now. I think I changed it around the time of the COVID lockdowns. Be the best version of yourself. It’s right there in the header. It’s the mission statement I’ve built this whole…

Series: Upgrade Your Life — Post 3 of 6 I’m not a gear person. I don’t spend hours researching the best productivity apps. I don’t have a color-coded system with seventeen categories. I’ve tried those things and they always collapse under their own weight within a few weeks, leaving me with a beautiful empty notebook…

Series: Upgrade Your Life — Post 2 of 6 Let me say something that might sound strange coming from someone who has studied self improvement for decades: Most self-improvement advice is useless. Not because the people giving it are lying. Not because the ideas are wrong in theory. But because the way it gets packaged…

Series: Upgrade Your Life — Post 1 of 6 I’ve been writing on this website since 2001. That’s not a brag. It’s actually a little embarrassing when I think about it — because most of what I wrote in those early years was garbage. Rambling thoughts, half-baked opinions, the kind of stuff you’d cringe at…